Marlins prospect Jake Marisnick was hit on the left hand by a pitch from Trevor Rosenthal in teh fourth inning.

He said X-rays were negative but he might be out another day or two.

The St. Louis Cardinals teed off on Marlins pitchers in a 7-2 win, hitting five home runs to account for all of their runs.
Tom Koehler gave up home runs to Oscar Taveras and Matt Holliday. Evan Reed allowed a shot to Ronny Cedeno. And Ryan Webb allowed back-to-back homers to Matt Adams and Rob Johnson.

A bright spot was Kevin Slowey, who allowed two hits over 2 2/3 scoreless innings.

“We gave up seven runs all on home runs. We continue to get balls up in the zone and we’ve talked all spring about pounding the strike zone down and not all of us are able to do it,” he said.

“It was good to see slowey. Hopefully some of those guys get a chance to watch him and watch how a guy who doesn’t throw 95 (mph) goes in there and hits his spots and gets outs. That’s kind of what we are looking for, a guy to go in there and pitch.

“Ninety-five doesn’t do you a whole lot of good when it’s at your belt and guys are teeing it up and you’re 2-0 every time. We definitely got to get better with that. That’s getting kind of frustrating for me right now.”

Koehler made no excuses for his performance.

“Any time you leave the ball up no matter who you are playing things aren’t going to go well,” he said.

“That’s exactly what’s going to happen when you face, it could be the Cardinals or the Sandusky, Ohio, Little league. You leave the ball up they’re going to hit you.

“It is only march 6, but hopefully we get all of the kinks out of the way now and during the season you get back to commanding he bottom of the strike zone.”